The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-06

two good numbers and lasting only twenty minutes,
seems the best The performance. toerably good
concerning the soloists was barely toerabe with re-
gard to chorus and band"
Kate Casteton's song, Excuse Me, I'll Tell
You 10 More. is hit wherever sung. new skit
Mss viii add several To- her
Crazy Patch"
Earnest Harvier,. receiver Of the BARLEY Campbell
estate lately sold four plays at Auction in New York
by order OF tho en''s. comprised
Separation 'Paquita' and Fairfax" and tho
total sum realized was 81, 1875.
Versatility is what the young actors lack. said
veteran manager, who had come to New York to
engage talent for rural circuit I've been looking
all the week for capable of doing the lovers In
society plays and brass in the band.
The play which David Beasco and Clay NJ
Greene have written for Lolita aud for which that
has already been given will be entitled Pawn Ticket
ITO, and will be produced in April.
Miss Bessie Cleveland who plays here with the
Duff Opera Company this week Us cousin of Pres-
dent Cleveland and she is the actress who called on
the President, in Washington, last week, account
of which was given in the press dispatches.
Booths profits thus far this season amount to
about $4,000 for each performance, and, Mr..
Booth has played in halls with seating capacity of
less than 600 il follows that the charges for seats
must have oeen considerably advanced
Cincinnati Enquirer The consolidation of the Doris
and Colvn shows will greatly increase the circus at
fractions for the coming season. John B. Doris is
now In Indianapolis experimenting the arrangements
necessary for the completion of the united shows.
Mr.. E. d. Colyn is in the East purchasing features
and engaging artists. 1t is said that he promises some
arenic surprises in the shape of European artists
John R. Rogers, the irrepressble and unsquelcha-
ble writes from Sydney N. $. W., regarding recent
item in the Journal stating that he had been arrested
and fined $500 for having instigated some hoodlums
to fire into train in England in which Minnie Palmer
travelling contradicting the report. He says:
''Supposng l had done what am accused Of would
not the government prosecute me? The railways are
in the lands of the government, and. owing to the
firing in train thousands of tourists Cancelled
their orders and thereby made the railroad and every
watering place in ireland suffer. No, no, my dear
boy, it was no fairy tale-no such luck"
Airy Fairy Lillian Russell as she is called, who
appears here this week. has been the subject of
gossip and discussion than any other opera singer of
present years She is Chicagoan, and has been sing
ing in comic opera about FIVE years. Her first i'm
portant success at the New York Casino, where
she the prima donna for three A lady Of
this city who recently her in Chicago thus des
| cribes hers "She is nothing of midget in stature
but her bones small. every joint is dmpled, her
| feet and hands studies of symmetry, and her
face is splendid copy of the China dollbaby have
all nursed and caressed in nursery days. Without
any exaggeraton, she has complexion like mold OF
| blanc mango, touched up with cranberry jelly. Her
is pure Dantean in miniature. and her mouth is
a revelation. She sang like bird and without any
| apparent effort"